Table: "Religious Groups, Members/Adherents, In Texas, 1990 "; pg. 7: Texas pop. (1990 U.S. census): 16,986,335; "Data based on reports from 133 church bodies. "; This figure is from ADHERENT column ( "Adherents " defined as all members, incl. regular participants not considered as communicant.), not the more restrictive "member " column.

"Brazil has nearly ten times the population of Saudi Arabia... Yet Saudi Arabia has only a handful of people interested in evangelizing it, while more than 7,000 missionaries are at work in Brazil (half of whom are Protestants, and half Catholics). "

"Additionally, a strategy for India must take into account the enormous amount of evangelistic energy already being invested. There are an estimated 114,500 Indian evangelists sent by Indian-founded missions. Many of these are at work in the heavily-evangelized south, but not a few are found in the less-evangelized north. "

"Today, American missionaries make up just a small fraction of the Christians at work in foreign fields. Of the 420,000 foreign missionaries working worldwide, Bonk said, 'fewer than 50,000 are North American.' "

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